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Business leadership learnings - passing the baton

Published: 03-Aug-2016

A year after winning the NSW Business Chamber's Regional Award, followed by the State Business Leader Award, I was delighted to reflect on how the recognition has helped my business enLighten Australia and to pass the baton onto the 2016 Business Leader.

The 2016 awards ceremony, hosted by the NSW Business Chamber and officiated by NSW Treasurer, the Hon Gladys Berejiklian MP, was held on Thursday July
28th at the Kirribilli Club, with views over Sydney Harbour. Click on images to enlarge

The year in review

The Business NSW regional award win was my first personal award win and provided welcome recognition and validation for the risks taken to develop a new
product, a new business model and a company.

As a former Regional Director of Engineering for a commercial property management company, I believe that my practical end user input into the LED luminaire
design process has been instrumental in being able to drive innovation. After 2 years of R&D and commercial trials, enLighten launched its patented
Chamaeleon light, which has changed the way that building and strata managers provide emergency lighting.

At enLighten we have had success in saving our customers over $6 million in annual energy and maintenance costs by upgrading their lighting in back of
house areas such as fire stairs, car parks and corridors,including emergency lighting. These areas had seen no technology changes from the traditional
fluorescent tube lighting for 40 years.

Over the past year we have continued to invest in developing new products and smart controls, employed new staff and are growing market share in a very
dynamic market.

Congratulations to the 2016 winners

The 2016 Business Leader for the Sydney North Eastern Region is Mr Stephen Canning of JCurve Solutions, a cloud ERP software solutions provider based in
Chatswood.

We were also thrilled to see that the Australian Catholic University were the 2016 Sustainability Award winners. The ACU is currently undertaking
fire stair and car park lighting retrofits using our Chamaeleon II lights across campuses in North Sydney and the ACT, to add to their previous Strathfield
campus exterior pathway & floodllighting upgrades via installers Mechanical Electrical, Fire & Protection (MEFP) Contractors.